For the Service Learning project, my class baked like enough cupcakes to feed all of Africa, and we sold them to our schoolmates, who would give them to their teachers as a Teacher's Day present (or as a bribe for more marks), or consume them to end their own starvation. At the beginning I actually wanted to ignore this pointless project and go home, but then as it turned out there was NPCC that day, so I had to choose the better alternative, which was to spend more time with my class. (as in, we were still in school at 8pm)
Firstly, anything you think I did in that kitchen is probably better then what had actually happenned there. In the end I figured my other classmates can bake well enough without me so I went to make myself a bit more useful by helping the packaging. Again, I won't dwell on what exactly happenned, but you could say I was embarassing myself a lot. A whole lot. Anyways, I eventually learned how to paste coloured strips on small containers (a deceptively hard task) and I decided to keep doing that like some brainless zombie, which was a bad idea, because once we finished that I couldn't find anything else I could do without humiliating myself again. Actually while I was doing it I was thinking of it possibly being my future job. But the point is, if my classmates were more of an asshole and laughed at me when I screwed up I probably would have gone into a frenzy and next thing you know there won't even be a kitchen. So yeah I think we should be more understanding and supportive of other people. O_O
When the project started I was hoping it would end, at 5pm I wished I had went for NPCC, and when I got home I wished I could do it again. It was quite fun actually. The next day we had to sell those cute cupcakes that I'd rather leave at home to admire (it's way too cute to be eaten) to people who have placed orders a week ago. I admire them for spending their money on something that hasn't even been produced yet and could come out as acid goo. *Salutes* It's probably because I didn't help out as much, but I wasn't thinking along the lines of Those bastards better appreciate the effort taken to make those cupcakes! (And by the way, I will never look at cupcakes the same way again. *Salutes*) And when I thought deeper, if that's even possible, I realized that the baking and delivering of the cupcakes wasn't a duty, even though most people, including myself at the start, treat it as one. I mean, we shouldn't be selling all these cute cupcakes in the name of Service Learining. When I was delivering the cupcakes I thought Would I have done this if not for SL? (Oh, by the way, money earned from this project was given to some organization which I didn't care to remember, so it was probably a more meaningful project then I had realized.) It's the same reason the policemen arrest criminals. Because it's their duty? Or is it because they are the only ones who have the power to maintain peace in the country? Then shouldn't everyone have that power? They do? Never mind I'll stop this whole paragraph is making me sound like a rebel.(Now you know why I hate NP so much) Anyways, one thing I can take away from all this is that I should maybe contribute more of my own free will (although anything contributed by my own free will ought to be disastrous) and not rely on such special occasions where it looks like we're doing it for a CE grade. We're not, right?
Yeah, I know, sounds like I haven't learned much through the project. Besides becoming some container wrapper I guess I could do something more meaningful to the people around me in the future, or even now by not spamming the Facebook News Feed. I mean, it doesn't have to be cute cupcakes (actually, it better not be). I could help others be happy by...well, um...by...well it's the thought that counts, and I'm sure that if everyone has this kind of mentality (as in the help-others-for-fun mentality) then I think the world can be a happier place. As a note, this project was far more meaningful than whatever we had to do at NPCC. Learning how to survive their own created camp. Pffft.
Firstly, anything you think I did in that kitchen is probably better then what had actually happenned there. In the end I figured my other classmates can bake well enough without me so I went to make myself a bit more useful by helping the packaging. Again, I won't dwell on what exactly happenned, but you could say I was embarassing myself a lot. A whole lot. Anyways, I eventually learned how to paste coloured strips on small containers (a deceptively hard task) and I decided to keep doing that like some brainless zombie, which was a bad idea, because once we finished that I couldn't find anything else I could do without humiliating myself again. Actually while I was doing it I was thinking of it possibly being my future job. But the point is, if my classmates were more of an asshole and laughed at me when I screwed up I probably would have gone into a frenzy and next thing you know there won't even be a kitchen. So yeah I think we should be more understanding and supportive of other people. O_O
When the project started I was hoping it would end, at 5pm I wished I had went for NPCC, and when I got home I wished I could do it again. It was quite fun actually. The next day we had to sell those cute cupcakes that I'd rather leave at home to admire (it's way too cute to be eaten) to people who have placed orders a week ago. I admire them for spending their money on something that hasn't even been produced yet and could come out as acid goo. *Salutes* It's probably because I didn't help out as much, but I wasn't thinking along the lines of Those bastards better appreciate the effort taken to make those cupcakes! (And by the way, I will never look at cupcakes the same way again. *Salutes*) And when I thought deeper, if that's even possible, I realized that the baking and delivering of the cupcakes wasn't a duty, even though most people, including myself at the start, treat it as one. I mean, we shouldn't be selling all these cute cupcakes in the name of Service Learining. When I was delivering the cupcakes I thought Would I have done this if not for SL? (Oh, by the way, money earned from this project was given to some organization which I didn't care to remember, so it was probably a more meaningful project then I had realized.) It's the same reason the policemen arrest criminals. Because it's their duty? Or is it because they are the only ones who have the power to maintain peace in the country? Then shouldn't everyone have that power? They do? Never mind I'll stop this whole paragraph is making me sound like a rebel.(Now you know why I hate NP so much) Anyways, one thing I can take away from all this is that I should maybe contribute more of my own free will (although anything contributed by my own free will ought to be disastrous) and not rely on such special occasions where it looks like we're doing it for a CE grade. We're not, right?
Yeah, I know, sounds like I haven't learned much through the project. Besides becoming some container wrapper I guess I could do something more meaningful to the people around me in the future, or even now by not spamming the Facebook News Feed. I mean, it doesn't have to be cute cupcakes (actually, it better not be). I could help others be happy by...well, um...by...well it's the thought that counts, and I'm sure that if everyone has this kind of mentality (as in the help-others-for-fun mentality) then I think the world can be a happier place. As a note, this project was far more meaningful than whatever we had to do at NPCC. Learning how to survive their own created camp. Pffft.
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